Performance assessment and electronic portfolios: their effect on teacher learning and education.

above the last decade, almost all states have deposit in place standards-based reforms that have attempted to define what teachers should know and be able to do as a originate of their teacher preparation experience. In many states, these teaching standards have been linked to state licensure requirements and/or state and national accreditation of teacher education programs. Although state approaches for licensure vary, many states have make knowned standards-based performance assessment a whole s that prospective teachers are required to pass to be eligible for a teaching credential. In